Ethics: A friend of ResearchIntensive One Day Course on Research Ethics As the result of a popular request by the participants of the Qualitative research methods course, the Institute for Research and Development organised a one day research ethics course on the 24th of March 2016 at the Institute for Research & Development in Health & Social Care.…
Bioethics Initiative Awareness Raising, Educational Activities and Capacity Building Strategy: To train a critical mass of mid career faculty to take a lead role to cultivate interest among wider community. Activities: The first intensive course was held on 14th and 15th August, 13th and 14th of September and 24, 25, 26th of October 2003. Collaboration…
Ethics of Mass Preventive Public Health Programmes
Veterinary Ethics Three day workshop on Veterinary Ethics titled, “Initiative Workshop for Policy Development of Veterinary Ethics in Sri Lanka” organized by the Institute for Research & Development in Health & Social Care. The workshop was held on the 28th of July 2010 in Kandy. Read the Workshop Programme
Ethical Issues in Post-Disaster Clinical Interventions and Research Published the paper ‘Ethical Issues in Post-Disaster Clinical Interventions and Research: A Developing World Perspective. Key Findings from a Drafting and Consensus Generation Meeting of the Working Group on Disaster Research and Ethics (WGDRE) 2007’, in the June 2010, Asian Bioethics Review; Volume 2, Issue 2 This…
Research Methods: Conducting Empirical Research on Ethics Series of workshops on ‘Research Methods Training Workshops on how to Conduct Empirical Research on Ethics’, conducted by the Institute of Research and Development. The series consisted of 05 workshops held from December 2009 to March 2010. The workshops was organized in collaboration with the School of Social…
Informed consent in Sri Lanka: A survey among ethics committee members Abstract Background Approval of the research proposal by an ethical review committee from both sponsoring and host countries is a generally agreed requirement in externally sponsored research. However, capacity for ethics review is not universal. Aim of this study was to identify opinions and…
Informed Consent in Sri Lanka A research project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, on ethics titled ‘Informed consent in Sri Lanka; current practices, quality of the information leaflets, consent forms and participants understanding of the process’. The aim of this study was to provide a comprehensive review of consent practices in research carried out in…
2nd National Bioethics Conference A presentation was given on the work carried out by the Working Group on Disaster Research and Ethics (WGDRE) 2007 on ‘Ethical Issues in Post-Disaster Clinical Interventions and Research’. Second National Bioethics Conference Moral and Ethical Imperatives of Health care Technologies: Scientific, legal and socio-economic perspectives on use and misuse. Organised…
Ethics and Biotechnology in Vietnam
Global Networking We aim to establish local, regional & international networks, with individuals & organisations involved in ethics. In order to achieve this, we have successfully established collaborations with academics in; South Africa, The SAARC Region (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), Vietnam, America (United States of America & Canada), Australia, The World Health Organization (WHO). The SAARC…
8th Asian Bioethics Conference | 2nd UNESCO Bangkok Bioethics Roundtable Ethical Issues in Post-Disaster Clinical Interventions and Research Informed Consent in Sri Lanka: Review of Research Conducted in Sri Lanka Prof. Athula Sumathipala, Hon. Director of the Institute for Research & Development in Health & Social Care presents the work carried out by the Working…